Please, columnists and pop editorial writers, learn another plague to misuse and give medievalists a break from your nonsense.
I always figured, if one must do historical analogy (please don't) the Plague of Justinian is a better take - a poorly timed epidemic that badly weakens an already overstretched empire, striking in the context of renewed great power competition.
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It's more that these sorts of 'just so' historical analogies where the present moment is exactly like a specific past moment tend to be lazy and intellectually shallow. Past events are useful to think with, useful to compare with, but history doesn't repeat.
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